Down Quotes
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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
Imran Khan
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
Felix Baumgartner -
When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
Edgardo Osorio -
People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
Halle Berry -
I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.
Ted Cruz -
All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
Padgett Powell -
I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.
Gail Carriger
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All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
Karl Pilkington -
I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.
Danica McKellar -
One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly.
Haley Joel Osment -
I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.
Kate Moss -
I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
Tammin Sursok -
It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!
Oscar Robertson -
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
Vin Scully -
When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
As threats emerge - from ISIS to Russia to the Iranian nuclear program - we need a president with the resolve to defend our country and not back down.
Sam Graves
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The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.
Victoria Pendleton -
A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
Pat Paulsen -
I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.
Carli Lloyd -
Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.
Jack Keane